Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 257 299
Rank change year-on-year -90 +42 -1
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 614 554 608
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.13% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 1.28% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 323 253 291
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,797 £42,608
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,497 43,445 57,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.45% 88.84% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 59,802 24,607 31,056
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £33,099
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,541
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +17.02% -11.32% -1.85%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 16 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 16 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -88 543 £60,000 -17.24% 152
London -33 308 £70,561 -11.80% 68
UK excluding London -126 250 £60,000 -4.00% 123
Work from Home -14 191 £58,541 -16.37% 116
North of England -45 64 £60,000 -22.58% 22
South East -101 60 £43,500 -30.40% 28
North West -2 50 £61,500 -8.89% 7
Midlands -36 41 £48,500 -24.81% 23
South West -50 38 £57,500 -8.00% 30
West Midlands -33 31 £48,500 -15.60% 15
East of England -46 24 £70,000 +6.87% 5
Scotland +10 15 £77,500 +82.35% 12
Yorkshire -42 13 £57,500 -29.23% 9
East Midlands -36 10 £38,347 -50.52% 8
Northern Ireland -86 5 - - 1
Wales -78 3 £65,000 +18.18% 4
North East -71 1 - - 6

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 46 (7.49%) Confluence
2 22 (3.58%) CMS
3 4 (0.65%) Drupal
3 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.65%) WordPress
4 3 (0.49%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.16%) Apache
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 19 (3.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 19 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.14%) Moqups
5 5 (0.81%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.49%) Trello
7 2 (0.33%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.33%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.16%) MadCap Flare
8 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 19 (3.09%) Workfront
2 14 (2.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.81%) SAP PSCD
4 5 (0.81%) Shopify
5 3 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.49%) iTrent
6 2 (0.33%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.16%) Eikon
7 1 (0.16%) Magento
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.16%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 1 (0.16%) RMDS
7 1 (0.16%) SAP ECC
7 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 77 (12.54%) SaaS
2 67 (10.91%) AWS
3 37 (6.03%) Azure
4 20 (3.26%) iPaaS
5 16 (2.61%) Figma
5 16 (2.61%) Power Platform
6 15 (2.44%) GCP
6 15 (2.44%) Google Workspace
7 11 (1.79%) Anthropic Claude
7 11 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (0.81%) ChatGPT
9 5 (0.81%) Copilot Studio
9 5 (0.81%) Power Automate
9 5 (0.81%) Zapier
10 4 (0.65%) Amazon Bedrock
10 4 (0.65%) GitHub
10 4 (0.65%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.07%) HTTP
2 23 (3.75%) Broadband
3 11 (1.79%) Firewall
3 11 (1.79%) WAN
4 9 (1.47%) DNS
4 9 (1.47%) LAN
5 8 (1.30%) SD-WAN
6 6 (0.98%) DHCP
6 6 (0.98%) MPLS
6 6 (0.98%) NX-OS
7 4 (0.65%) Internet
7 4 (0.65%) Multicast
7 4 (0.65%) SAN
7 4 (0.65%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.49%) CTI
8 3 (0.49%) Intranet
8 3 (0.49%) Network Security
8 3 (0.49%) SMS
8 3 (0.49%) VPN
8 3 (0.49%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.91%) Metadata
2 16 (2.61%) Power BI
3 8 (1.30%) Big Data
3 8 (1.30%) SQL Server
4 6 (0.98%) BigQuery
5 4 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (0.49%) MySQL
6 3 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.33%) Db2
7 2 (0.33%) GIS
7 2 (0.33%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.16%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.16%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.16%) Redis
8 1 (0.16%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 73 (11.89%) JIRA
2 12 (1.95%) Git
3 11 (1.79%) GitLab
4 10 (1.63%) Claude Code
4 10 (1.63%) Postman
5 9 (1.47%) Selenium
6 7 (1.14%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.81%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.65%) JUnit
9 2 (0.33%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.33%) TestNG
10 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 194 (31.60%) Social Skills
2 183 (29.80%) Finance
3 169 (27.52%) Marketing
4 97 (15.80%) Analytical Skills
5 79 (12.87%) Law
6 70 (11.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 65 (10.59%) Banking
8 58 (9.45%) Presentation Skills
9 41 (6.68%) Manufacturing
9 41 (6.68%) Retail
10 40 (6.51%) Organisational Skills
11 39 (6.35%) Influencing Skills
12 36 (5.86%) Public Sector
13 26 (4.23%) Electronics
14 24 (3.91%) Legal
15 21 (3.42%) Publishing
15 21 (3.42%) Telecoms
16 15 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (2.12%) Financial Institution
18 10 (1.63%) Cantonese Language
Job Titles
1 164 (26.71%) Product Manager
2 95 (15.47%) Lead
3 70 (11.40%) Senior
4 51 (8.31%) Product Owner
5 46 (7.49%) Software Engineer
6 36 (5.86%) Lead Software Engineer
7 34 (5.54%) Senior Manager
8 25 (4.07%) Development Engineer
8 25 (4.07%) Software Development Engineer
9 23 (3.75%) Product Lead
10 20 (3.26%) Senior Product Manager
11 18 (2.93%) Marketing Manager
12 15 (2.44%) Development Manager
12 15 (2.44%) Product Marketing Manager
13 14 (2.28%) Architect
13 14 (2.28%) Technical Manager
14 13 (2.12%) Business Analyst
14 13 (2.12%) Project Manager
14 13 (2.12%) Senior Software Engineer
15 12 (1.95%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (5.70%) REST
2 22 (3.58%) HTML
3 15 (2.44%) Google Maps API
4 13 (2.12%) React
5 11 (1.79%) XML
6 10 (1.63%) Terraform
7 9 (1.47%) LangChain
8 8 (1.30%) CSS
8 8 (1.30%) PyTorch
8 8 (1.30%) Spring
8 8 (1.30%) TensorFlow
9 7 (1.14%) Spring Boot
10 6 (0.98%) Pandas
11 5 (0.81%) CrewAI
11 5 (0.81%) LlamaIndex
11 5 (0.81%) SAP Fiori
12 4 (0.65%) LangGraph
12 4 (0.65%) NumPy
12 4 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
12 4 (0.65%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 178 (28.99%) Product Ownership
2 42 (6.84%) Management Information System
3 38 (6.19%) AI Agents
4 33 (5.37%) Social Media
5 30 (4.89%) Onboarding
6 28 (4.56%) Public Cloud
7 23 (3.75%) Marketing Technology
8 19 (3.09%) Over-the-Top Content
9 16 (2.61%) Augmented Reality
10 15 (2.44%) Virtual Reality
11 14 (2.28%) Data Centre
11 14 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (2.28%) Web Conferencing
12 13 (2.12%) Biopharmaceutical
12 13 (2.12%) Cloud Native
12 13 (2.12%) Online Banking
13 12 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (1.79%) Driving Licence
14 11 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
15 10 (1.63%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.93%) Linux
2 17 (2.77%) Windows
3 4 (0.65%) Unix
3 4 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.33%) Android
6 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.16%) CentOS
6 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (51.63%) Roadmaps
2 209 (34.04%) Agile
3 167 (27.20%) Product Roadmap
4 166 (27.04%) AI
5 153 (24.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 145 (23.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 126 (20.52%) Decision-Making
8 111 (18.08%) Product Strategy
9 109 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
10 105 (17.10%) Customer Experience
11 96 (15.64%) Product Vision
12 93 (15.15%) Project Management
13 89 (14.50%) Analytics
14 86 (14.01%) Software Engineering
15 85 (13.84%) User Stories
16 83 (13.52%) Product Backlog
17 73 (11.89%) Backlog Prioritisation
17 73 (11.89%) Coaching
17 73 (11.89%) Strategic Roadmap
18 70 (11.40%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 45 (7.33%) Java
2 44 (7.17%) Python
3 17 (2.77%) SQL
4 13 (2.12%) JavaScript
5 12 (1.95%) TypeScript
6 11 (1.79%) C++
7 10 (1.63%) PowerShell
8 5 (0.81%) ABAP
8 5 (0.81%) Bash
9 4 (0.65%) C#
9 4 (0.65%) R
10 3 (0.49%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.49%) PHP
11 2 (0.33%) Perl
11 2 (0.33%) XPath
12 1 (0.16%) C
Qualifications
1 157 (25.57%) Degree
2 44 (7.17%) Master's Degree
3 32 (5.21%) MBA
3 32 (5.21%) Security Cleared
4 27 (4.40%) SC Cleared
5 14 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.63%) HND
6 10 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (1.63%) PMP
7 9 (1.47%) HNC
7 9 (1.47%) PhD
8 8 (1.30%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (1.14%) CSPO
10 6 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.98%) CCNA
10 6 (0.98%) MCSE
11 5 (0.81%) SAP Certification
12 4 (0.65%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.65%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (6.84%) QA
2 16 (2.61%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.44%) SLA
4 8 (1.30%) GDPR
4 8 (1.30%) PMO
5 3 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.33%) DICOM
6 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.33%) HL7
6 2 (0.33%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.33%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.33%) NIST
6 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.16%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.16%) GRC
7 1 (0.16%) SEPA
7 1 (0.16%) TARGET2
System Software
1 10 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (1.47%) Docker
2 9 (1.47%) Firmware
3 6 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.98%) vSphere
4 5 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.81%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.16%) KVM
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (1.63%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.98%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.49%) WSUS
4 2 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (0.33%) Kibana
5 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.16%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.16%) Ansible
5 1 (0.16%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.16%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 50 (8.14%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.05%) Salesforce
3 25 (4.07%) Google
4 22 (3.58%) Adobe
5 17 (2.77%) OpenAI
6 16 (2.61%) Cisco
7 15 (2.44%) Facebook
8 13 (2.12%) Oracle
8 13 (2.12%) SAP
9 12 (1.95%) Workday
10 10 (1.63%) VMware
11 6 (0.98%) Fortinet
11 6 (0.98%) Juniper
12 5 (0.81%) FIS
12 5 (0.81%) YouTube
13 4 (0.65%) HP
14 3 (0.49%) Bloomberg
14 3 (0.49%) Dell
14 3 (0.49%) Fujitsu
14 3 (0.49%) Reuters